Spelling and grammar bug bears

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Ok I'll start

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@hellsBells246
Oops! It's a minefield! Can't even spell OK! Just shows maybe I need to be less judgemental. As I made three mistakes. Reminds me of the bible quote (I am not religious, but was brought up catholic) ... Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?

Should of

Been for being..
" l like been with Jack"

This one. I really hate the incorrect use of myself. "Thank you for your email to myself about blah blah blah." "I am looking forward to doing business with yourself ... etc."

Awful.

"I was sat."
"I was stood."

It's everywhere, and so common on MN it seems people must really think it's correct.

I borrowed him £10...
Myself/yourself can get to fuck.

The use of like instead of "as if".

It looks like it's going to rain. NO- it looks as if it's going to rain. Drives me potty. Which is a sure sign I'm turning into my mother....

It's colloquial, and common in lots of the UK.

Could of, should of, would of are wrong. It's could have....

Apologies if I've missed the point of your post and you were being sarcastic.

“ya’ll”

It's "y'all."

I thought ect came from Molesworth, but presumably based on observed errors.

All Waitroses use "Fewer than 10 items" AFAIK.

@artesia
Had no idea that was wrong. So many people say that, it's kind of normal.

'I seen' and 'I done.' Sometimes I even see those in formal work correspondence! 'Tender hooks' and a 'chest of draws.' Also 'alot' is not a word.

And mixing up 'been' and 'being.' That one makes me despair.

Relevent

'grown adult' is quite common on MN. An adult is a person who is fully grown.

Defiantly instead of definitely .
Your instead of you're,
Would of.

"I brought a T-shirt today"

No you didn't. You bought it!!!!!

It is always should have, would have and could have - never should of etc. Or are you joking? haha

I make lots of typos.

Like can be used as a conjuction.
It looks like it's about to rain. -.is not wrong.

Or as a noun. - I stacked like with like in the toy shelf.
As a preposition. - My brother had a toy like that.
And as an adjective. - I answered in like tone of voice.

Like used as an informal adverb is not correct.
It came out sunny and rainy like.
He saw the sky and was like, "Where is the rain?".
This last usage of LIKE is what is common amongst young people and I hate it.

E.g., not eg.

You are abbreviating 'exempli gratia'; abbreviations require a full stop.

Otherwise you are just writing two letters e and g.

There's a fabulous thread in Pedants' Corner from some years ago showing why the "10 items or less" supermarket thing isn't incorrect. It's not quite as simplistic as less= uncountable, fewer= countable.

I make my fair share of mistakes but what really winds me up is people who write/say them instead of those. An example would be, ‘ them books over there’. This really gets to me.

Draws annoys me.